About: Ibrar Ayyub

Bernard introduces us to the dsPIC microcontroller. He shows us his Arduino like project board for a dsPIC and gives advice on software development tools. This article was submitted by Bernard Klinc as part of the “Hobby parts for articles” program. Bernard received a graphic LCD module for this great article. You may remember Bernard […]

Many Yaesu transceivers from the 1990s and thereabouts could use an optional FTS-8 module, that provided subtone generation for transmission, and subtone decoding for CTCSS reception. One of the radios that used this module was the FT-736 multiband, multimode full-duplex VHF-UHF rig. I bought one of these radios in 1992, to use it on the […]

One very common thing in electronics is the need for two intelligent devices to communicate with each other. When you first see a PIC and Arduino you might think that they are two differeny systems and don’t share much in common, but you’d be wrong! In fact, the AVR and the PIC microcontrollers have many […]

The Project aims at controlling a wheelchair for handicaps by means of human voice. The speech recognition system is a useful way of implementation and is easy to use programmable speech recognition circuit. Programmable, in the sense that user can train the words (or vocal utterances) he needs the circuit to recognize. This board allows […]

This is a very small telephone exchange attached only two ordinary Tele phones. Fully bi-directional facility with an intercom system. When a phone is in off hook condition , Exchange will detect it & send ringing pulse to other phone. When it will be picked up , the connection will be established between both phones. […]

This post provides a simple method to interface any keypad (e-g 4×4 or 4×3 etc) with PIC12F675 microcontroller. The code for PIC12F675 is written in C language using MPLAB with HI-TECH C compiler. You can download this code from the ‘Downloads‘ section at the bottom of this page. In this post, it is assumed that you know, […]

This electronic circuit project is a simple four channel digital voltmeter with display and keyboard . This four channel digital voltmeter is based on PIC16C71 manufactured by Microchip Technology . The PIC16C71 device’s I/O ports have an improved sink/source specification. Each I/O pin can sink up to 25 mA and source 20 mA. In addition, […]

This post provides the LCD[1] interfacing code in 4bit mode using PIC16F84A microcontroller. This code is written in C language using MPLAB with HI-TECH C compiler. You can download this code from the ‘Downloads‘ section at the bottom of this page. It is assumed that you know how to make an LED blink with PIC16F84A microcontroller. If you don’t then please read this […]

This post explains the idea of creating custom characters on any LCD ( e-g on 16×2 LCD ) which has HD44780U controller in it. Almost all 16×2 or 20×2 LCDs have HD44780U controller in them[1]. This controller provides the functionality of CGRAM ( Character Generator RAM ). We can write character patterns on this RAM […]

This project is what you have been waiting for. Remember the scrolling signs you see in shops and on advertising billboards? Now you can program your own moving sign with all the effects you can think of. We have provided a blank canvas in the form of a scanning screen 15 LEDs by 7 LEDs […]